{"id":6592,"date":"2018-07-10T23:08:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T03:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6592"},"modified":"2018-07-10T23:17:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T03:17:46","slug":"elected-to-bless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6592","title":{"rendered":"Elected to Bless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Allin-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Allin-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Allin-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Allin-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Allin-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the truer and deeper views of God&#8217;s plan of mercy through Jesus Christ &#8212; now in the ascendant I trust &#8212; teach us to affirm distinctly the doctrine of the divine election of &#8220;the few&#8221;: and just because we so affirm it, to connect with it purposes of <em>universal<\/em> mercy.  For what is the true end and meaning of God&#8217;s election?  The elect, we reply, are chosen, not for themselves only, but for the sake of others.  They are &#8220;elect,&#8221; not merely to be blessed, but to be a source of blessing.  It is not merely with the paltry object of saving a few, while the vast majority perish, that God elects; it is with a purpose of mercy to all; it is by &#8220;the few&#8221; to save &#8220;the many&#8221;; by the elect to save the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Thomas Allin, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/christ_triumphant.html\">Christ Triumphant<\/a><\/em>, p. 228<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the truer and deeper views of God&#8217;s plan of mercy through Jesus Christ &#8212; now in the ascendant I trust &#8212; teach us to affirm distinctly the doctrine of the divine election of &#8220;the few&#8221;: and just because we so affirm it, to connect with it purposes of universal mercy. For what is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-redemption","category-universalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}